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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1930
Page
8
Mrs C J Rice and her daughters Mabel and Elma visited yesterday at the Bert Donaldson residence located south of Washington, sharing a social call in the community.
Washington Chasers prepare for new fireproof lean-to at plant. Clarence Wiele in Burlington yesterday. Mrs P L Etter back from Macon Missouri visiting parents. Ralph and Mrs Shadle of Quincy guests for weekend at H V Smiths. Mr and Mrs Smith visit Ottumwa. T Jacksons visit daughter Marie in Iowa City nurses training. Miss Twyla Reid and Harold Booth in Cedar Rapids visiting Sherman Gingerich. Pythian Sisters bake sale Saturday at Washington Cleaners South Side Square 2181. Vincent Tellin notice. Mr and Mrs Dewey Shiner guests yesterday. John Moore Thornburg and others visit. Misses Milligan guests of Aileen Milligan. Esther Elgar noted as chief sister. Albert Dayton Mabel and T C Nisholeon and daughter from Rast Pleasant Pain in town.
Miss Inez Holden of Chicago visits friends in Washington while Wayne Normal and son Billy host in Ainsworth. Washington, Iowa and Oskaloosa relatives seen at Davenport. Zear Hinshaw and Florence Weedham visit. Ramseyer Hatene demonstrates poultry farming between Des Moines and Ames on Highway 65. Lonzo Jones, Graceland ex-dean, and Harland Mead host Graceland College events. Arkansas curves the keys Gavotte.
Fragmentary clippings mention Miss Virginia Wallace leaving for New York to pursue studies at Wasshing. The rest includes garbled notes about a mug sale and unrelated weather with partly showers and cool temperatures.
Mrs Dan Keeler and Miss Henrietta Whittaker planned to return Miss Mathilda Lobberger and Miss Kathryn Lobberger to Rock Island for nurses training at St. Anthony's hospital. Brighton visitors Miss Freda Vanerus and Miss Edith Weldin shopped locally. Agnes Wheelan returned from Riverside with her brother and his wife. Several local residents attended conferences, visits a town, and entered contests at Armory with golf and dance events priced 10 cents per item. Republicans discuss upcoming county central committee meeting at the Court House Tuesday October 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Mr and Mrs McKay visited yesterday at the home of their son Ives McKay. Floyd Filis will be in the county hospital for recuperation after a broken leg. She tripped over brick in the back yard of her home to Pleasant Plain. Mrs John Shebeck delivered evidence about garden edgings at the Journal office. Two adigins measured six inches in diameter, one about 18 miles long and the other about.
Harold Briley of State University of Iowa spent Sunday at his parents home. Elsie Briley planned a music lesson trip to Des Moines and return in the evening. Boost Band and Orchestra tickets offered for Tuesday at 8 p.m. Howard Wolf teaching near Monmouth returned home for the weekend. Mrs Thorn returned from Oklahoma City after visiting relatives. Hoice and daughter Ilza, of Rock Springs Wyoming, visited Dr. and Mrs. J C Boice and brother Dr. C S Boice.
Mr and Mrs C T Shepherd of Fort Madison visited in Washington and nearby towns for the weekend. The group included the Durrs, the Bathons, Miss Cherrie Mek, and others. several traveled to Des Moines Ames and Muscatine to visit relatives and friends. A rummage sale is planned for Saturday November 1 in the McDaniel room.
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